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at Paris, has published, in two vols. 8vo. a Work intitled, Traité Gomplet d'Anatomie ou Defcription de toutes les parties du Corps humain, i. e. A Compleat Treatife of Anatomy, or a Defcription of all the Parts of the Human Body. The edition which this learned Author formerly published of Verdier's Anatomy, was received and celebrated as a claffical. book upon that important fubject. But this fuccefs did not hinder him from perceiving that new difcoveries and other circumftances rendered that work fufceptible of great improvement, both by corrections and additions. This engaged him to republifh the treatife of Verdier; but in the execution of this defign, he has made the work his own, and rendered it a new production. It is divided into feven parts, in which Mr. SABATIER treats fucceffively with great acuteness, precifion, and perfpicuity the various branches of Ofteology, Myology, Splanchnology, Angiology, Neurology, Adenology, and the Teguments. Mr. SABATIER has happily avoided that aridity and stiffness which render difagreeable our best anatomical productions, by interfperfing in his work a variety of hiftorical and critical remarks; as alfo feveral reflections on the nature, caufes, and fymptoms of the difeafes that afflict mankind.

V. A work of ftill fuperior merit in its kind, and which places itself with peculiar propriety after that which we have been now mentioning, is the Hifloire des Maladies Internes; i. e. The History of Internal Difeafes; printed at Paris, in four volumes, 4to. enriched with a great number of copper-plates, 1775. This is the pofthumous work of one of the most eminent phyficians, and one of the most attentive and accurate obfervers of Nature, that has adorned the medical annals of ancient or modern times. It was compofed by the Chevalier RAYMOND DE VIEUSSENS, Counfellor of State, Phyfician to Lewis XIV. and Member of the Royal Academies of London and Paris; and it is the mature fruit of an acute and ardent genius, improved by a laborious and fuccessful practice of above forty years. The contents of the work are, every way, fuitable to the reputation of its Author, and exhibit an intructive and accurate view of the diseases incident to the human body, confidered in their nature, their fymptoms, their complication, and the method of cure diverfified according to the variety of conftitutions in which they appear. The two firft volumes only of this important work are yet published; the third and fourth are in the prefs, and the Neurography, or Defeription of the Nerves, compofed by the fame learned Author, will be added to his Hiftory of Difeafes.

VI. The Abbé BossUT, Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and of feveral other literary Societies, has published the third part of his Courfe of Mathematics; which contains an Elementary Treatife of Geometry, and the Method of applying AlREV. May, 1755.

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gebra to that Science.-The French title is as follows: Cours de Mathematiques, troifieme Partie. Traité Elementaire de Geometrie & de la maniére d'y appliquer l' Algébre; à Paris, chez Jombert, 1775. In the former parts of this justly-esteemed work, the learned Writer treated of right lines and curves, and their principal properties; of furfaces, of folids, and of all that is relative to trigonometry, whether for the conftruction of tables, or the folution of the principal problems to which that science is applicable. In the part that is now before us, he points out the different methods of conftructing geometrically algebraic quantities, or of preparing the folution of problems; and treats of the conftruction of determinate problems of the first and fecond order, of the general theory of conic fections, of the manner of refolving determinate problems of the third and fourth order, &c. All thefe fubjects are treated with the dexterity and precifion that are vifible in all the mathematical productions of this excellent Author.

Prefixed to this volume we have a Preliminary Difcourfe; containing a compendious Hiftory of Geometry; in which we are told, that the application of algebra to this fcience was first practifed about the year 1594, by VIETE, who was in the fervice of Queen Margaret. It was he who, according to our Author, found out the method of reprefenting geometrical quantities by the characters of Algebra, and of reducing to equations the properties of extenfion. Des Cartes afterwards applied algebra to the theory of curves; in which he has been followed by the most eminent geometricians.

VII. The learned M. RONDET, Author of the Edition of the Bible mentioned in our laft Review, has committed to the prefs another work of confiderable moment, which is offered to fubfcription, and is intitled, Dictionnaire Hiflorique & Critique de l'Ecriture Sainte, &c. i. e. An Historical and Critical Dictionary of the Holy Scriptures, in three volumes, 4to. It is proposed, not only to re-unite in this work all the advantages that recommend the dictionaries of Calmet, Simon, and d'Huré, but alfo to enrich it with new remarks on the facred text, drawn from an accurate study of the original, and of the ancient languages, and from the writings of the most learned commentators. The known abilities of the laborious compiler is a promifing circumftance with respect to the merit of this dictionary; which will be undoubtedly of ufe to those who apply themselves to the study of the Holy Scriptures, who defire a competent knowledge of facred hiftory, chronology, and geography, as alfo of the ftate of philofophy among the ancient Hebrews and the neighbouring nations. The only thing to be apprehended in a work of this kind is the leaven of popifh fuperftition, which is more or less vifible, even in those productions of the French divines,

divines, where it is not neceffary for their caufe, and where it is rather forced in, than introduced with propriety.

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VIII. ROME. The bookfeller Monti has publifhed in 8vo. Nova Defcrizione, &c. i. e. A New Defcription of Ancient and Modern Rome, and of all the most celebrated Edifices, Curiofities, &c. Sacred and Profane, that are to be found in that City and in its Environs, 1775. This is one of the moft complete and fatiffactory defcriptions of Rome that has yet appeared. All the objects that naturally draw the attention of travellers and connoiffeurs; fuch as the arches, temples, amphitheatres, obelifks, bafilifks, and the celebrated mafter-pieces of painting and fculpture which abound in that city and its environs, are accurately defcribed in this production of an anonymous writer.

IX. Francifci Xaverii MAJORANI de Agricultura apud Veteres Studio ac dignitate Diatriba, 8vo. The Author of this work, which is printed at Naples, treats firft of the origin of agriculture, and of the etymology of the names of those who were the inventors or improvers of that important practical science. He afterwards paffes in review the ancient nations, among whom rural occupations were honoured and encouraged; fuch as the Hebrews, Egyptians, Perfians, Grecians, Sicilians, Car thaginians, and Romans. He examines the remaining monuments of their ruftic labours, and all their inftitutions, cuftoms, and practice relative to agriculture; and concludes with very folid moral reflections on the decline of the Roman Empire, which he dates from the period that their confuls and dictators ceased to follow the plough, frequent the barn, and feed the poultry, after they had dined themselves.

X. The aftronomers will, no doubt, give a favourable reception to the following work: Obfervationes Siderum habita Pifis in Specula Academica ab Anno 1769, ad Annum 1773, jussu &aufpiciis R. C. Petri Leopoldi, in lucem edita a fofepho Slopio de Cadenberg, in Pifana Academia Publico Aftronomia Profeffore, &c. Pifis. Folio. Profeffor Slopi is the only Italian aftronomer who has undertaken to make and publifh an uninterrupted series of observations from the year 1765; and the merit and utility of his observations are greatly increased by their being calculated and reduced to the aftronomical tables.

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XI. The late learned profeffor MAYER of Gottingen, whofe name will always be mentioned with honour in the annals of philofophy, has left in manufcript feveral valuable productions, which are to be published fucceffively, under the inspection and care of the ingenious Mr. Lichtenberg, Profeffor of Philofophy, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Gottingen. The firft volume of thefe pofthumous works has already appeared under the following

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lowing title: Tobia Mayeri, in Univerfitate Gottingenfi quon dam Profeffore ac Societatis R. Scient. Sod. Aftronomi Opera inedita. Vol. i. Edidit, et Obfervationum Appendicem adjecit Go. Chriftoph. Lichtenberg, Prof. Philofophia & Soc. R. Scient. Sod. Gottingen, 1775 This volume contains a variety of obfervations and difcourfes upon different branches of aftronomy, which are illuftrated in the appendix by learned annotations.

XII. The ingenious Mr. LESSING, well known in the republic of Belles Lettres, by feveral dramatic productions, of great merit, and by fables abounding with delicacy and fentiment, has published at Brunswick a Treatife intitled, Vom alter der Oelmalerey, &c. i. e. Concerning the Antiquity of the Ufe of Oil-colours in painting. John Van Eyk is generally fuppofed to have been the inventor of painting with oil-colours; but Mr. LESSING has here proved from a manuscript of Theophilus, preferved in the Ducal Library of Wolfembuttle, and intitled, De Coloribus & Arte Colorandi Vitra, that the use of oil in painting is of a much more ancient date, and that, in all probability, we derive it from Greece. According to our Author, Van Eyk only invented the method of drying speedily the colours mixed with oil, and it was to learn this fecret that Antonello went from Meffina to Flanders.

XIII. Verfuch uber Pindars leben, &c. i. e. An Effay on the Life and Writings of Pindar, by Mr. GoT. SCHNEIDER. Strafburg, 1775. This Effay, which confifts of a series of letters addreffed to a friend of the Author, contains judicious reflections upon the character of Pindar, and his poetic genius. Mr. SCHNEIDER confiders the divifion of Strophes, Antiftrophes, and Erodes, which we find in. the editions of the Theban Bard, as ridiculous, as they only relate to the ancient manner of finging this fpecies of poetry, and can be of no ufe now, that they are not fung, but faid. The gentleman, however, is in the wrong, to quarrel with the mufical divifions on that account; but it is no great matter.

XIV. Valftendige Topographie, &c. i. e. Complete Topography of the Marquijate of Brandenburg, by M. BUSCHING, in two vols. 4to Berlin, 1775. This voluminous Writer extends his defcriptive powers to a vast variety of objects in this work, and if he goes on to write, as fomebody goes on to touch and take, to grafp and conquer, it would be no eafy matter to calculate the number of topographical volumes that may proceed from his teeming pen. One of the first things we perceive in this prefent work is an enumeration of the different maps of the Marquifate of Brandenburg, which will foon be confidered as pictures in miniature. The fecond object we meet with is, a Syftematico-geographical delineation of that whole country. The word tematico being of a dubious, and fomewhat political ety

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mology, may excite apprehenfions in fome who have not feen this book, and remind them of the fyftematical difpute between the geoprapher and his mafter, in the Dialogues on the Polish Partition; but it is to be supposed that Mr. BUSCHING takes the word in a metaphyfical fenfe. Next comes a differtation on the ancient cities, towns, villages, &c. of the marquifate; and, laftly, a complete geography of Brandenburg, in which fcarcely a farm-house, a dairy, or a fhepherd's hut are overlooked by this learned and fyftematic Writer.

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XV. The prefs of Amfterdam has conveyed to the public the following work, which has been compofed at Petersburg by one of the French Literati, who are at present writing for the infant Ruffians, until they grow big enough in knowledge and civilization to write for themselves. The Title of this work is, L'Homme Moral ou l'homme confideré tant dans l'Etat de pure Nature, que dans la Societé. Par P. CH. LEVESQUE. 1775, in 8vo. i. e. Man a Moral Agent, confidered both in the State of Nature and in Social Life. Though there is no great depth of thought in this performance, yet it is, upon the whole, fenfible and judicious, and there are feveral things in it acutely investigated, and happily expreffed. The ftyle in general is elegant and unaffected, and even where the Author is fuperficial (which is often the cafe) we read him with pleafure, becaufe he talks away agreeably. In fhort, this is not a book that you are to bend over, with a thoughtful countenance, on a reading-desk; but if you take it in your hand in an evening walk, in the dogdays, it may entertain you pretty well. It contains forty-four chapters, of which most of the titles confift of a fingle word. They are as follow: The principle of Morality imperfectly underflood-Man a Savage-Man in Society-Of the Duties of a Citizen, in general-Is Man malevolent?-Government-EqualityLaws-Primitive Convention-Justice-Religion-PopulationCelibacy of the Faquirs-Love-Polygamy - Encouragements to Marriage-Adultery-Chastity-Choice in Wedlock-Inceft--Conjugal Duties-The firft nourishment of Infants-Education-FriendshipGlory, efteem, contempt, difgrace-Beneficence-Gratitude-Avarice -Humanity-Luxury-Alms giving-Source of the paffions-Paffigns-Courage-Courage in dijaflers-Courage under pain-Courage in the hour of death-Duelling-Suicide-Duties in the connexions of -Jocial Commerce Happiness Pleasure-The Pleasure of Epicurus.

This enumeration of the fubjects here treated may tempt the reader to imagine, in the first hafty moment, that this book was formed by the fole affiftance of a pair of fciffars; yet we may venture to affirm, that this is not the cafe; for the ftyle is uniform, and the materials feem to have been more or less digefted. [To be continued Monthly.] Gg3

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